Fla. Assistant U.S. Attorney Arrested In Child Sex Sting
By Logan Murphy Monday Sep 17, 2007 11:39am
(h/t BillW)
Yet another sex scandal--this time, from a DoJ official.** While this was a sting operation and there was no actual victim, the details released in this video make it clear that Atchison has had sexual contact with young children in the past. As a word of caution for those with children, this video contains some graphic details which are not suitable for them.
Download | play 
Download | play Local coverage from Detroit. (thanks to John K for the video)
A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a minor.
John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.
An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police.
According to authorities, Atchison made contact with a detective working undercover for the Macomb County Sheriff's department's.
The detective, acting as the child's mother, allegedly arranged a sexual encounter between Atchison and her 5-year-old daughter, police said. In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her daughter that "you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents." Read more...
** Corrected, thanks to all who brought it to our attention.
Login or Register to post comments.
Good lord.
Just incredible that someone with the supposed intelligence of a Deputy US Attorney would be so taken with this fetish for children that he would use such breathtakingly poor judgment--thankful for that, now he is apprehended.
This might just be next: LATEST ‘STING’ FROM NBC’S DATELINE: ‘EXPOSING’ RIGHTWINGERS
This makes me physically ill.
rhymes with astration?
Well the guy is based out of Florida. What did you expect?
DAMN!
THAT will never make it to the Washington Post or New York Times.
changeit @ 2:
Since when is intelligence required for keeping a DoJ job??
How do we know this guy is a republican ?
Apparently, he's a registered republican. Who knew?!
Will O'Reilly claim this pervert was set-up and entrapped like he claimed the [sick] men on NBC's "to catch a predator" were just set-up and entrapped?
Who knows what his plitical affiliation, but anyone describing themselves as a "family man" and does this is sickening!
Surrendering Monkey @ 10:
Being republican is a pre-requisite for serving in DOJ.
Surrendering Monkey @ 10:
We don't. Assistant U.S. Attorney is not a political appointment, just a career job. It's just as likely he's a Democrat or not affiliated. He's not a "Bush Administration official" . He's just a line U.S. prosecutor.
Curtilingus @ 14:
And you can google him!
Shocking! To think that a Bushie would do something like this is a just shocking. They seem so honest and "christ-like".
I'm changing parties today!
What a sick f**k....what a typical reich-winger.
Its a shame Al Gonzalez left...protecting our kids was Job #1 for him.
I guess this is what you get when you don't look at anything else but party loyalty when you hire. I bet this guy was a rabid Republican.
Richard, some commenters over at Rawstory checked Florida's voter registration list. If I could link, I'd do it.
I would like to see some proof that he was and is a republican, and some proof that it was a Bush appointee that hired him before we go blaming the Bush Administration for this one.
It seems this story is light on any standard of proof to just dump this in Bush's lap.
Why do you call him a "Bush admin. official"? Just because he's a AUSA doesn't mean he's one of theirs. He could be a holdover.
Why does it matter if he's Dem or Repub, or a member of the "Under 6 party"? C&L should report on any crooks in positions of power.
Jeez people, think...if he was a democrat, this would be breaking news on Fox.
Republicans. Is there anything they won't fuck?
Curtilingus @ 24:
Uh, they do.
Yes, but according to so many assholes--many diehard Bush supporters among them--it's adult homosexuals seeking marriage rights with one another that are the real threat to America, and not sanctimonious right wingers cheating on their wives or preying on children! What do you want to bet if the guy had been trying to have sex with a boy, the right wing whackos would be up in arms! He's from Florida, so this 'ain't but a thang, down there....unless it was a little boy!'
DUN DUN DUN
Another one bites the dust.
Jesus fucking Christ 5 years old
Dr. Matt @ 12:
Or will Bill O’Reilly blame the victim again.
Please let this perv have been hired by Monica Goodling....
Sorry but people who prey on 5 year olds for sexual favors should be treated in the same category as murderers. I'm not a reactionary law and order type but these people should not be allowed to reenter society.
John David R. Atchison :Republican (Naturally), Trying to have sex with a 5 year old. These people are sick. GOP=Gay Obscene Perverts
Strange. I just checked Drudge (1005 PDT). No "breaking news"...
Thom @ 23:
You think people haven't researched his political leanings??
Rusty Shackleford @ 26:
Their wives?
Surrendering Monkey @ 10:
just out of curiousity last night i looked at several sources that had stuff about this bastard and not one mentioned his R.
Hemlock for Gadflies @ 35:
is there any way to send him the stories?
fleetmouse @ 37:
Do you blame them?
A man who's job was to PROTECT children.
He's an animal. Plain and simple. No BULLSHIT excuses from the right THIS TIME. He molested a CHILD.
Maybe Bush will pardon him!
Liberal AND Proud @ 41:
That's the worst part, the monster says that he's done it "plenty of times".
I can see the republicans spinning this, "At least it was a girl. The Republican party is already showing signs of progress and improvement!"
Oh. and in reading the comments I see the enabling trolls are out in force.
Ooooh...we should report on Dems...uh WE DO. Ooooh...how can you say he's one of the Bush ADministration...because they appointed him.
Just variations on "it's Clinton's fault" or "Clinton is to blame'.
The GOP is becoming a home for wayward perverts. All these tight assed conservative, law and order and god types really have some serious issues to deal with.
CNN just reported it.
Strawberry @ 43:
Absolutely terrifying on thinking who else he has violated. my god...
The people at DailyKos found his voter registration:
"The only registered John Dave R Atchison (John David Roy Atchison) registered in
Florida is a Republican from Gulf Breeze (Pensacola suburb) born in 1957, which
fits the other information....."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/17/161247/155
Reich-wingers still consider Clinton's BJ to be much more serious.
Liberal AND Proud @ 45:
I never said CL doesn't report on the dem crooks.
he fits what experts call the republican profile.
Remember the Franklin Cover-Up?
http://www.franklincase.org/
I didn't know the GOP's "big tent" policy included perverts, child molesters and adulterers. Oh well.
Or is the "big tent" supposed to be a description of a GOP man at a 5 year olds birthday party.
If this were a Dem, Drudge and Faux would have blaring headlines.
Faux is still obsessing over moveon.org (http://www.foxnews.com/) and Drudge is wanking off to OJ and the tasered kid the(http://www.drudgereport.com/)
equilibrio @ 52:
Nice post equil I don't think many people know about that documentary that was pulled from The Discovery channel. All their production costs were reimbursed by the governement and they were told never to show it.
It is all about organized molestation, by the republicans.
the republicans really are a weird sex cult.
Curtilingus @ 14:
Not true. See the next comment, Richard at 15. I don't think we should make too much of whatever this man's political affiliation is anyway. Pedophilia has no party preference.
What secret hand signals do Republicans use to say "I'll pay you to let me fuck your five-year-old daughter"?
What a disgusting piece of trash. Put the bastard in general population.
Apparently he is indeed a registered Republican ... unless there is another guy with the same name in Pensacola (FLA) : "The only registered John Dave R Atchison (John David Roy Atchison)r egistered in Florida is a Republican from Gulf Breeze (Pensacola suburb) born in 1957, which fits the other information..... " (according to a source on Daily Kos)
"
naschkatze @ 56:
Dr. Matt @ 54:
Party affiliation is fair game when the party of perverts has set itself as the moral compass, authority, judge and jury on everyone else's behavior.
The GOP set itself up as the Halo Party...and I don't mean the video game. So, yeah...it IS a very viable issue and topic for discussion and criticism.
naschkatze @ 56:
franklincase.org
follow this link and you'll see. pedophelia prefers republicans!
Ugh. Just can't think of anything to say. Just...ugh.
mick e @ 6:
I was going to say the same thing. All the nuts seem to come from Florida.
Anyone who is has the public trust; police, judges, prosecutors, and politicians (to name just a few), should face much stiffer penalties for criminal acts like this. Like doubling of the sentence or an extra ten years, whichever is greater. If that sounds harsh, it should be in order to convince those given those jobs that they better not betray the public trust.
Is Billo gonna give this some pub or spend another night on the Hardees commercial?
naschkatze @ 56:
Reich-wingers have the patent on perversion and pedophilia. A week doesn't go by without another reich-wing pervert is exposed.
You know, the more you have to proclaim you're moral, the more you're trying to compensate for your moral insecurity.
I'm not saying democrats are incapable of molesting, but there does seem to be a pattern of much higher incidence with republicans.
Geeez, can't any GOPer get a simple hummer from a female over 21?
Oh...right...Clinton did it!
When the hell are repukes going to start revealing the hypocrites in their political party - craig, vitter, gannon/guckert, atchison, mcconnell, hastert, rice, etc., etc., etc.?
The number of blatant "do as I say, not as I do" folks claiming to be righteous then being caught in illegal acts is becoming epidemic. Fine examples of greed, hypocrisy, and a attitude of "fuck you America".
69
I'm against the death penalty, but there are times when I'd almost make exceptions. What a sick bastard.
Gus @ 71:
I say give him an "Abu Ghraib"...or maybe a "double Guantanamo".
I. Want.To.Vomit....ooHHHhhh....
pussy_galore @ 73:
Don't say that at a GOP Fundraiser. It might become some right wing perv's appetizer.
Thom @ 23:
Professor Farnsworth @ 36:
You're right. He dated Paula Jones when she was 7.
Arroyo @ 75:
And dumped her because she was too old.
But he's a loyal Bushie so that's why he wasn't one of the ones fired by Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales. Good thing the Bush Administration has its priorities straight.
Child molestation.
Gay sex solicitation.
Prostitution
Dominance & Submission
Gee, what's left? Barn animals?
Liberal Kinky Sex = a feather
Conservative Kinky Sex = the whole chicken
Oh Christ, just what the DOJ needs these days.....an AUSA caught in a sting wantin to peerve out on a 5 year old... To me, it really doesn't matter whether it was a boy or girl.. Peervin is peervin period.. Adults need to let kids be kids and that don't involve learnin about sex via trauma and psychological shock!
What a mess...pathetic.. Quite the statement on our society and culture too that this is happening in this way and at this particular time...
And after all the hard work Gonzales did to 'burnish' the DOJ reputation for 'honesty' and 'upholding the law'...Yep, this is JUST what the DOJ needs to clean up its image..... I know I'll be trustin them in the future to get it right... yea...trust...in the law, and those agencies tasked with defending it...PFFT! Something else thrown out with the baby and the bathwater....Thanks Chimpy... You and your myopic asshole friends have just about ruined the DOJ with your appointments...
I don't even care if this loser was one of Goodlings appointments or not.. Bush's DOJ under Gonzales and Goodling allowed this tool to work. Maybe if the people responsible for personnel at DOJ under the 'great Alberto' had paid more attention to the personnel on hand and their habits, and less attention to politics and political considerations relating to DOJ and the appointments, maybe this fuck would have been ferreted out and provided help before this incident.. Mental help or maybe the exit door with a disbarment meme in hand..
P.S. at this point, I tend to agree with the poster who inferred what the punishment should be... Yea, rhymes with astration...
I got zero sympathies for child molestors.... And I can be pretty freaky myself as far as sex goes... with a consenting ADULT that is...dammit... Any human being past puberty ought to have enough together mentally to be able to draw the line and know where to draw the line on all this... NO CHILDREN! It's that simple, no matter how friggin horny and desparate one is.... JD
Liberal AND Proud @ 78:
Sorry, try again, the reich-wingers already have the sex with animals gig taken.
Dr. Matt @ 48:
The ages don't match up. The story says he's 53.
Doug @ 34:
I realize that the change in meaning of this acronym most likely wanted to convey like this: Gay, Obscene, Perverts. Regardless, I find it somewhat offensive for you to imply that being Gay has some equivalency to being obscene or a pervert.
True, Senator Craig, Congressman Allen and Glenn Murphy Jr., National Chairman of the Young Republicans are all gay criminal hypocrites, but they are only a sub-set of being Gay (whereas, being obscene or being perverted is an all-incompassing repulsion)
That being said, how about GOP = Groin Oversight Problems?
He's been with the DOJ since 1984 as per my understanding.
I don't think is party affiliation is relevant. But with the luck running in the GOP, who wouldn't assume he's one o' them.
I've had no luck locating info on him on the net.
Dr. Matt @ 66:
You really don't believe that, do you? You are just looking at famous examples in the news, but across the population, nation-wide? Uh-uh.
OMG!!!!!! What the fug is wrong with the rethug party that they draw these perverts to themselves? A 5 year old baby. I hope they put him away and never let him out. He cannot be rehabilitated. Just throw the key away.
naschkatze @ 84:
Of course I'm serious. It's a fact that a reich-winger is exposed on nearly a weekly basis for their perverse and pedophilic behavior.
jkb @ 82: Naw - Grand Old Perverts says it all.
Damn, you gotta love my state. We just keep on giving when it comes to scum and disgusting individuals. :roll:
Please commit suicide, John David Atchison.
do we know for sure that the Justice Department wasn't conducting its own sting?
Thom @ 81:
Do you actually believe there are TWO John Dave R Atchison 's that live in Gulf Breeze, FL? ROFL!!!!!
Diogenes @ 87:
Yeah, that does and works for me!
By the way, this guy needs a lobotomy, castration and to be raped....and not in that order.
This really is a terribly disturbing story.
They should put this creep away for life.
Although it seems like its been one Repug after another getting nailed lately,I think partisan concerns should be left out of a case like this.If this guy WAS a Dem,I'm sure we'd all still agree that he should be put away for a long time where he can't hurt any more innocent children.Jesus wept.
i NEVER quote bible scripture but.....Mark 9:42
42"And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck. 43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
Dr. Matt @ 91:
Roll on the what now? Of course I believe it's possible. And even if it's not, the people here and at DKos who think that if you're an AUSA you'e automatically a Bushite need an education. And - this story is about a fucked up twisted piece of human error. The party means nothing to me.
Bet this feller was active in his church, too. I'd hate to be this guy in prison. Inmates don't take kindly to "chesters".
Thom @ 95:
Hear, hear and "right on"...This guy has an illness and Party affiliation has NO importance.
Gonzo's homeboys "keeping America safe"
Helena Montana @ 8:
It will never make most of the local mullet wrappers here in Florida, either. However, I will make it a point to raise the awareness in the on-line comment section of my local paper.
This is the lowest of the lowest in our society. I have a migrane.
Party affiliation does not matter. What is important is his bosses party affiliation. His superior has a responsibility to deal with this. If Alberto Gonzales was really protecting our children, he would have cleared out the DOJ first.
Biggus Diggus @ 96:
Doggiebobo @ 97:
oh they LOVE chesters.
they are the ones that get dressed up like women and passed around the cell block.
Jason Wolfe @ 100:
but all the self hating gays and baby rapers are all Republican!!
what was Gonzo gonna do, not take party affiliation into consideration when hiring??
lmao.
John @ 90:
it was a set-up by Nancy (accomplish nothing) Pelosi!!
hes innocent. he was kidding about that whole, raped lots of babys before comments.
a REPUBLICAN arranging to molest a GIRL? wow, 9/11 DID change everything.
kulshan @ 102:
Easy does it. Time and again we've seen that not all so accused are guilty. It's a horrible charge and we should not falsely accuse.
There are way too many examples of hi-level Republicans who are getting nailed for corruption and sexual deviancy. It's past the point of coincidence. I think organized crime has taken over the GOP at the national level. They don't want people of independence and moral integrity controlling the Party. They want people who are compromised and blackmailable in key leadership positions. As long as they walk/vote the Party line, all personal transgressions are OK. Just don't get caught.
Really, time for a phrase change. Instead of the Party of Family Values, they are the Party of Familiar Values.
Doggiebobo @ 105:
"but all the self hating gays and baby rapers are all Republican!! (SOME PROOF PLEASE)"
Ya mean like the "proof" you demanded of Saddams WMD's?
right.
as for the blanket statement about the modern day nazi party??
Name a single in the closet, self hating gay Dem thats been exposed.
Any Dem baby raper??
no??
right.
so not only was it offensive to bill o'reily types, but factually accurate!
killed 2 birds with one stone.
Ewww, truly makes my skin crawl.
Evidently, if you are a republican compassionate christian, you are really a sexual predator.
Republican=Sexual Predator
what a bunch of hypocrites................
casterrate him and through him in a cell full of bubba's This sick baztard needs some torture
Doggiebobo @ 97:
Unfortunately, the reich-wing MSM does make party affiliation important.
Anybody who sees this as a political coup is just as sick as this sicko
He's a pervert: THAT'S how we know he's a REPUBLICAN.
everyone forget about this Republinazi??
http://www.beyonddelay.org/node/347
Looks like Ted Stevens is fucked too.
might have to give a call to his office.
What a messed up, effed up piece of crap! The man needs to be incarcerated with a room full of fathers... the bigger the better!
kulshan @ 116:
Ted Stevens has always been fucked!
Trouble is he was only caught THIS time.
Hemlock for Gadflies @ 35:
Not that I'm defending him, but Drudge did report it. Yesterday. You're right, though. He DID NOT have it as breaking news. He had it buried towards the bottom of his page as a regular old headline.
Curtilingus @ 67:
There is a psychological defense mechanism called "reaction formation", which basically encompasses precisely this behavior......the ones who are standing up proclaiming themselves as good moral upstanding citizens are the ones most prone to have a toddler chained up in their basement.
I similar behavior set coincidentally is people who portray themselves as powerful, warlike, tough, whatever, are in actuality the ones with most fear, and least ability to handle "confrontations" or whatever
V V
(amateur psychologist)
A five year old?
A FIVE YEAR OLD CHILD?
So help me... I never thought I'd say this, [Deleted. Better to go with that thought. Please don't advocate violence against others on this site-Sitemonitor]
Or even better, like someone said earlier...Incarcerated with a whole bunch of Fathers for a long, long time.
It would almost be worth going to jail just to meet this guy for a while!
fleetmouse @ 37:
lol! speaking of wives here's his wife's little diddy on her
school website
http://www.floridaeducator.com/home.asp
There was probably more info there but she more than likely
'scrubbed' it because many of the teachers there go on about
themselves and how much they love teaching and provide
more info on the subjects they teach.
While I'm no fan of Bill Clinton, I can see why sex between a male and female adult is so shocking to Conservatives. It goes beyond their values, which seems to be anonymous gay sex, child molestation and prostitution.
Can't condone the perv. Mark Foley statue of limitations, anyone?
Still never got over how law enforcement can entrap citizens doing ANYTHING in this country, then charge and prosecute as if a crime had occurred (remember John DeLorean?).
Quite simply, how can charges be brought when the "victim" is fictional and brags? Prosecute for real crimes - there are enough real crimes out there.
And for #125 - "statue" is intentional :)
Is there really a mother out there that would put a 5 year old baby into the sex world? My God!! What a disgraceful way to live.
Gerrymandering, Oligarchy, Pedophililia - the cornerstone of the republiKKKan party.
Richard @ 15:
He's also a pervert. Lock him up and throw away the key.
A republican involved in a sex scandal, is it Tuesday again already?
Good God. The phrase "...makes my flesh crawl..." Just doesn't seem to do it justice, does it?
Mick Savage @ 125:
Remember John DeLorean? uhh....no. And I was an adult when that happened! :)
hashi @ 130:
LOL!!! I think they have a scheme to distract us from the previous week's pervert. They hope the chain of Republican criminal and/or perverse behavior will eventually be overshadowed by a Bill Clinton blowjob retrospective.
Reason @ 124:
and Hypocrisy
How stupid can one be? I guess it IS Florida.. He missed his calling as a priest!
Liberal AND Proud @ 78:
That's already been covered as well, remember Neal Horsley?
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_ri...
Another blemish on the state of Florida. Great. I'd move back to Louisiana but why bother?
I find it surprising though that this man who is an AUSA and presumably intelligent didn't see this sting for what it was. Me, I would have been suspicious of any mother putting up her 5 year old child for sex. Mothers just don't do that. Do they? Sick sick people.
He really needs to go into general population. I hear people in jail don't care much for child molesters.
Still shocking. Nearly six hours since the story broke, and Drudge STILL doesn't have any DEVELOPING news on this piece of shit.
But solid coverage of Paris, Britney, and DEVELOPING news on the Phil Spector and O.J. situations.
Vitam Vas @ 121:
Most child molesters are segrated from the general population in prison. Many inmates were abused as children. So, it's not very safe to mix molesters in with the other inmates.
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 137:
You might actually be surprised. I can't remember the exact details, but someone once as an experiment or piece of investigative reporting (what's that?) put out a hellishly creepy ad that just SCREAMED "audition for kiddie porn"......they had parents lined up with their darling little moppets around the block.
V V
Liberal AND Proud @ 139:
I was aware of that. They have a propensity to end up shivved in the shower. Perhaps you responded to the wrong post.
V V
Republicans are nothing but Perverts, Pedophiles and Criminal Thugs!
IMPEACH & IMPRISON!!!
Folks--
As others have already said, we don't know if this guy was a Dem or a Repug, and it doesn't really matter either way. AUSAs are civil servants, not appointed. His boss, the US Atty in Pensacola, is appointed. FWIW.
Rusty Shackleford @ 26:
yes... Ann Coulter.
Hey this guy see it not as ´´no chlid left behind´´, but as...any childs behind...
what.a.moron
What's with perversion and Republicanism?
My gawd. What the f---? The Republicans gotta learn to keep their dicks under control.
A 5 year old!!!! Pre-meditated, pre-planned, flew out of state, for a "date". That's the sickest thing ever!! This guy deserves to be locked up forever.
rawshiva @ 145:
;)
Login or Register to post comments.